@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 26 days agoLas Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamerwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square442fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down146 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1970arrow-down1external-linkLas Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamerwww.pcgamer.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 26 days agomessage-square442fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@rc__buggylinkEnglish-6•edit-226 days ago you just need to use the right prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc) on the unit. Oh, thanks. Bruh, it’s PC Gamer. quick edit: Hey! Why aren’t you converting it to Joules?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•26 days agoBecause Joule is the SI unit of energy, meanwhile the Watt is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one Joule per second. “Converting” joules to watts would be like converting m/s to US dollars.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•25 days agoI liked the analogy but I do think it would be clearer to say something like joules = money in bank account and Watt = spending per second
Oh, thanks.
Bruh, it’s PC Gamer.
quick edit: Hey! Why aren’t you converting it to Joules?
Because Joule is the SI unit of energy, meanwhile the Watt is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one Joule per second.
“Converting” joules to watts would be like converting m/s to US dollars.
I liked the analogy but I do think it would be clearer to say something like joules = money in bank account and Watt = spending per second